Sorb Definition

sôrb
sorbs
verb
To take up and hold, as by absorption or adsorption.
American Heritage

(chemistry) To absorb or adsorb.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
noun
sorbs
Any of a number of European trees of the rose family, as the rowan and the service tree.
Webster's New World
The fruit of any of these trees.
Webster's New World
A member of a Slavic people inhabiting the region of Lusatia in eastern Germany and southwest Poland.
American Heritage

Lusatian.

Webster's New World
Synonyms:

Other Word Forms of Sorb

Noun

Singular:
sorb
Plural:
sorbs

Origin of Sorb

  • French sorbe sorb fruit from Old French sourbe from Vulgar Latin sorba from Latin sorbum

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin sorbus the tree, sorbum the fruit; compare French sorbe. See service tree.

    From Wiktionary

  • German Sorbe perhaps variant of Serbe Serb from Serbian Srb, Serb

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Back-formation from absorb adsorb

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Sorb Sentence Examples

  • The Servian chroniclers connect its origin with their own nationality, basing this view upon the identification of Sarab with Sorb or Serbia.

  • Under the auspices of Archbishop Absalon the monks of Sorb began to compile the annals of Denmark, and at the end of the 12th century Svend Aagesen, a cleric of Lund, compiled from Icelandic sources and oral tradition his Compendiosa historic regum Daniae.

  • From Holberg's college of Sorb, two learned professors, Jens Schelderup Sneedorff (1724-1764) and Jens Kraft (1720-1765), disseminated the seeds of a wider culture.

  • He had never married, and he bequeathed all his property, which was considerable, to Sorb College.

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Words Starting With

SSOSOR

Words Ending With

BRBORB

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Words Starting With S and Ending With B

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